Engraved title leaf and 19 numbered prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries

Engravings signed: Ioan. Stradanus (Jan van der Straet) invent.; Phls. Galle excud.; Ioan. Collaert sculp

Karel van Mallery has been identified in the British Museum collection online database as the likely printer of these plates

Nova reperta was one of the 30 sections of engraved plates issued collectively under the title Speculum diversarum imaginum speculativarum. Several of these sections were also issued separately

The title cartouche in the Dibner Library copy does not have the Maltese Cross design found in other editions separating the words "Noua" and "reperta."

Noua reperta (title leaf) -- 1. America -- 2. Lapis polaris, magnes -- 3. Puluis pyrius -- 4. Impressio librorum -- 5. Horologia ferrea -- 6. Hyacum, et lues venerea -- 7. Distillatio -- 8. Ser, siue sericus vermis -- 9. Staphae, siue stapedes -- 10. Mola aquaria -- 11. Mola alata -- 12. Oleum oliuarum -- 13 . Saccharum -- 14. Color oliui -- 15. Conspicilla -- 16. Orbis longitudines repertae è magnetis à polo declinatione -- 17. Politura armorum -- 18. Astrolabium --19. Sculptura aes

SCDIRB copy 39088012168183 is imperfect: Plates 4, 12, and 19 are wanting

SCDIRB copy may include a mix of different states (and even editions) of the various plates

SCDIRB copy has the plates disbound, on sheets of varying sizes. The size of the prints ranges from 20 x 26 cm. to 32 x 37 cm. Housed in a modern archival folder

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